Recreating Concept Art in Alpha 10

[martyrsvale]

So ever since the first Alpha, I’ve been posting videos of Stonehearth on YouTube. However, I haven’t posted them here because that seemed a bit too close to self-advertising, and I wasn’t doing anything particularly innovative or creative–just testing the new features as they became available.

Now that Alpha 10 is out though, I had an idea. Remember this piece of concept art from awhile ago? It’s used as the splash screen thingy for the streams.
http://stonehearth.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/farm.jpg
Well, I thought that since most of the features we can see in this image are implemented, I’d try to recreate it in-game. Here’s the montage and results:

I know that there are many, more skilled players who could do this scene more justice, I just thought it was cool that we’ve come so far–this used to be just ideas of what the game might look like, now they’re actual features!

EDIT: Never a new idea under the sun! jonzoid attempted this several months ago, check out his thread! Building from the concept art

[8BitCrab]

amazing work man! i was hoping someone would recreate this once water was added.

also as a side note, you mentioned how the items disappeared when using the loot tool, thats because the hearthlings gain a “backpack” so that they can pick up multiple items when looting a goblin camp

[martyrsvale]

Indeed! And I know that the loot tool isn’t technically supposed to be used for non-conquered items. They were just having a bit of difficulty so I had to… nudge them lol. Also, the part of this that bothers me is the fact that the items which are picked up never make it to a stockpile, they just disappear. I’ll make official bug reports in a few days when I’m at an actual computer.

[8BitCrab]

never make it to a stockpile

are you certain? as they go and put all the items in the stockpile once they have a full “backpack” could be that they dont fill it so they never drop it off or something…

[martyrsvale]

That’s possible. Since the footage is so fast, it’s a bit difficult to see, but towards the end when I cleared out all of the dropped ores and stone from the canal, hardly any of it made it to a stockpile. Not sure where along the line the items are getting stuck/disappearing though

[SteveAdamo]

absolutely brilliant… I linked it in this evening’s stream and @Tom said, and I quote:

holy cr@p! that’s awesome!

[TurtleSquish]

@martyrsvale incredible man! Good work.

[Solus]

Awesome! I love it.

[jonzoid]

We’re getting closer every alpha!

Building from the concept art

Concept [image] Reality. So far there’s not a whole lot of major differences or things missing. It’s a bit hard to reproduce the concept exactly without the right terrain, but the basics are all there. Gives you some idea of how mature the concept of Stonehearth was back during the Kickstarter. [image]

Nice work.

[martyrsvale]

Thanks everyone!